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not be possible to know for sure that a culture wor- shipped gods until we can read their names—that is, until the literate societies of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, some 5000 years ago. Those early empires had both secu- lar and religious hierarchies, with priestly elites and some- times a god-king
s and desires of other people that we are hypersensitive to signs of "agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition;' we tend to attribute random events or natural phe- Signs of the
ssible to know g for sure that a culture wor- d shipped gods until we can read I their names—that is, until the e literate societies of ancient $ Mesopotamia and Egypt, I some 5000 years ago. Those g early empires had both secu- € lar and religious hierarchies, 6 • with priestly elites and some- • times
and desires of other people that we are hypersensitive to signs of - agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition,- we tend to attribute random events or natural phe- Signs of th
ot be possible to know E for sure that a culture wor- shipped gods until we can read their names—that is, until the literate societies of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, g some 5000 years ago. Those 2 early empires had both seen- 1 lar and religious hierarchies, with priestly elites and some- times a go
s and desires of other people that we arc hypersensitive to signs of "agents": thinking minds like ow own. In what anthro- pologist Pascal Boyer of Washington Univer- sity in St. Louis in Missouri has described as a "hypertrophy of social cognition:" we tend to attribute random events or natural phe- t.:1' 4 • S
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